Foreign Affairs rejected tenders, appoint consultant who did not tender

[Confuseous]

MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS

An overseas mission continued to engage and pay the company at the original contract price for 6 years and 10 months without any new contract.

When a limited tender was eventually called in November 2011, the mission decided not to award the tender to any of the invited tenderers but to continue to engage the incumbent, WHICH DID NOT PARTICIPATE IN THE TENDER EXERCISE.

Source: Page 18, AGO Report

 

[chonburifc]

Strange. Somehow such news no longer surprises anyone.

 

[scroobal]

This one takes the cake and I think it is linked to the corruption case linkd to the Head of Protocol.

An individual contravening procedures is one thing but there are audit, compliance and various control functions. These cut across procurrment, payments authority matrix etc. Over 6 years is mindboggling, but rejected a tender and then going back to an unauthorised vendor smacks of systemic breakdown let alone corruption. .

 

[laksaboy]

The whole fucking regime/system is corrupted from top-to-toe.

These are not 'one-off' or 'isolated' incidents.

Clean, honest, efficient government my balls. :oIo:

 

[GoldenDragon]

Strange. Somehow such news no longer surprises anyone.

Yes, we should worry if no such news. PS MFA should breeze through this setback. Kausikan very powerful!

 

[streetsmart73]

hi there


1. aiyoh!
2. why this does not surprise me leh?
3. complacency 101!